Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 2004

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 2004

Editors' introduction.
September 22, 2004... On May 17, 2004, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allowed same-sex couples to marry. Although the Netherlands, Belgium, and some parts of Canada have already recognized same-sex marriage, Massachusetts is the first state in the United States...

God's love and women's love: prison chaplains counsel the wives of Nazi perpetrators.
September 22, 2004... Stating the obvious statistical fact that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators of genocide are men elicits charges of essentialism and suspicions of women's claims to moral superiority and innocence. This essay intends to reaffirm that...

Religion and remedies reunited: rethinking Christian science.
September 22, 2004... Mary Baker Eddy was arguably the "most influential and controversial woman in America" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (1) In creating Christian Science, she wedded Christianity to the nineteenth-century preoccupation...

Whose history are we writing? Reading feminist texts with a hermeneutic of suspicion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sally Roesch Wagner, Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (Summertown, TN: Native Voices, 2001), 126 pp. Anne M. Clifford, Introducing Feminist Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001), 287 pp. ...

Same-sex marriage and relational justice.(ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Same-Sex marriage)
September 22, 2004... Suddenly many of my friends are getting married. Many of them have been in committed same-sex relationships for years. However, the spate of activities--judicial and political that have made same-sex marriage a reality in major cities such as...

"Wedding of two souls": same-sex marriage and Hindu traditions.
September 22, 2004... In 2000, I married my partner, a Jewish American woman, in New York with Jewish and Hindu ceremonies. The following month we held a wedding reception in New Delhi. The rabbi who conducted the Jewish ceremony said that we were married "in the...

Solidarity and the accountability of academic feminists and church activists to typical (world-majority) women.(ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Intellectual Struggle and Material Solidarity)
September 22, 2004... Womanist ethicist Emilie M. Townes says that "just because folk espouse solidarity does not mean they either know it or mean it." (1) Not only is this pertinent to all social-justice endeavors in the churches, it is also relevant to feminist...

Creating a critical faith-centered space for antiracist feminism: reflections of a Muslim Scholar-Activist.
September 22, 2004... My project is not to entertain readers with one more exotic tale or shock them with another astounding revelation about womanhood in a faraway place. All I wish to do is to communicate another mode of being female. But this is more easily said...

A response to the roundtable discussion "anti-Judaism and postcolonial biblical interpretation".(a comparison between American Jewish feminists and third-world feminists)(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 2004... The editors of the JFSR are to be congratulated for facilitating an open discussion in an area that has been somewhat submerged: the difference in perspective between American Jewish feminists and third-world feminists, or at least some members...